Was posting a quote in another thread, but it should also be here to give us BF3'ers more hope.

This is EA's CEO pumping everyone MORE about BF3, also admitting MoH reboots sucked balls! (but maybe hints at it becoming an annual franchise for revenue generation? Also this ties in with EA's recent announcement of a new MoH game)

"I've made no excuse for the reality that I want market leadership in the first-person shooter game business," he said. "In many ways I feel that we created the first mass market first-person shooter with Medal of Honor and unfortunately with the transition to the PS3 era we lost that. We're after it now.

"There's a great thing about an annual franchise, whether it's us or our competition; when you've got that annual franchise it's a meal ticket, it can generate a great deal of income.

"One of the problems with an annual franchise is you don't take the time to reengineer the underlying codebase so that it's as 'next-generation' as it can be," he added.

"We think there's a window of opportunity here. We've been investing for three years to build Battlefield 3. I think it will stand up as the best product in the industry this year... and we're going dead at 'em."

BF3 has taken ~3 years. That's a nice development cycle. Also theyre on Forstbite 2.0 now, they know the engine, adapted it and made it better. This game needs to be GOTY for both us and EA.

I'm still massively skeptical. I think despite what they say, the PC game will have compromises, for instance I believe there is a mention of no commander etc. For me, the maps will be the deal breaker. They need to be open and free-roaming. If they are not, then no sale.

I'm surprised you guys are gullible enough to trust these "screenshots".

I bet they will be close, BFBC2 is one good looking game and it looks fairly close to the screen shots. I have some faith in them, hell even if the maps are tiny compaired to BF maps, like in badcompany2 it will still be more fun than other shooters. Or I can get on a forum and whine and complain and say my vagina hurts 6 months before it is even released.

I'm surprised you guys are gullible enough to trust these "screenshots".

I dont trust the SS.

I play BFBC2 maxed. The game looks great for a FPS like this. It cant look WORSE quality wise(right :P) since the engine is now in 2.0, so I expect either the same everything, or most things being the same with some higher rez textures for PC (that will be scaled down for lower settings AND consoles)

You can bet that after three years of investment development EA will monetize exploit the product game to the maximum extent with a series of expansions and mods. One wonders if any "capable" second-tier teams remain as previous though and if not then all the better. However, DICE will presumably still take the customary vacation upon release and thus delay the inevitable patches.

Who believes the animations will be so detailed that during gameplay characters will lower their weapons at any time, face different directions, or stoop whilst running?

The peek piccy is especially annoying given the brouhaha over whether basic prone was going to be omitted when the question should have been whether peek would finally be added. And don't bother saying it would slow the action 'cause ye olde Rogue Spear arguably played at least as fast with the advantage of pitched battles -which are exponentially more fun than the repeated "expose yourself to die and then be revived or regenerated" schtick.

RS also had (more than a decade ago) a climb function for surmounting barriers which were not automatically traversed over. Yet in BF, a paving stone has to be jumped over and -impossibly, so too walls as if humans were lemurs. Worse, these queer mechanics inherently cause exploits. The BASE jumping has to go as well.

As for commander, it was implemented horribly in BF2 and degraded the game from BF. Good riddance. I sincerely hope there is no all-seeing-eye capability in BF3. The occasional area drone would be okay but in BF2 they were nearly constant and almost indestructable, and combined with the full scan eliminated any covert tactics.

Aaand, while I'm at it... I want server configurations to be strictly based upon modes and ranking. Any renters desiring to play outside these inherent rules can be unranked which are filtered out by default. Attempts by admins to apply make-believe rules would result in removal to the unranked category. In a nutshell, you're either part of the community or you're not and ranking is derived equally across each mode (rather than exploiting simpler play).

In BF2, an infantry-only mode was added which would have been fine if unranked and the filtering was not backwards -the listing could show either the mix of all servers or exclusively infantry-only, thus not actually capable of filtering them out.

For the love of the gods, implement proper range-based voices and allow radio comms to be text only. And don't expose the players body over the edge of buildings and whatnot.

That is all for now.

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I just now realized why I didn't play BF2 too much since I bought it due to lack of time...I played BC2 a lot...its great game until saw this, I want BF3 now..I hope I will play this game better than BF2! If its release, I probably want to upgrade my video card for this. I hope i have enough money for christmas.

No kidding game is gonna be awesome, I can't wait. DICE has consistently made fun MP games, are they perfect? nope, but I think they don't make them perfect so the people who don't know how to enjoy a game have something to complain about in forums.

Nice teaser, probably all we can hope for since this game isn't coming out till the end of the year.

I liked what little I did see though.

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I like the new animations. Like when the guy is running and at the same time turns to say "get down!" Or something to that effect. And also when the dude gets shot, it apparently has some physics involved in regards to the angle of impact.

And the maps look huge. Let's see how much of it is playable though.

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